You could be smaller and smarter but in reality the smarter people are either also quite big or are content with their status in game. They certainly aren't whining about how it isn't fair they're small.

So the goons have pointed out that a cheap and disposable option could have been used against an expensive mining operation as a grief tool when the player is inattentive? The dev response is to immediately make the disposable option not cheap.

Based on this goon logic, destroyers against exhumers should also require some re-balance?

The idea behind the siphon is generally theoretically good idea, but in practise this module will not function as intended. CCP knows people hate the current gameplay in aquiering moongoo. Now they implement an module that makes it possible to greif people already doing a gameplay they dont like. This will end up with only hurting the smaller entities that does moonmining, and **** off the larger entites that does moon mining. In other words, ccp is making gamebreaking gameplay emerge, instead of fixing their legazy issues and giving the players what they want.

everyone's a goon alt who disagrees with you right? those hundreds of small corps moon mining in low sec are all goon alts too arent they? or maybe we are all goon alts? oh the possibilities....

How about making it so that the siphon had to be hacked (via the hacking mini-game) in order to switch off its POS gun cloaking ability and be vulnerable to POS guns, which would then shoot it automatically or manually? This would make it significantly harder to bot your defenses. It'd also make a bit more sense than POS guns can't hit it unless they're manned by a person.

I'd probably let people hack it from inside the POS shield because it's now an even worse chore for the POS defender. However allies of the POS defender who want to disable the siphon could potentially do it in a hacking ship if they didn't have a combat ship handy (and the POS had online guns of course.)

Also how about having the siphon drop a wreck that can be looted/salvaged for ~20% of it's build value on death? This would mean that POS's that weren't very profitable, which suffer asymmetrically from being siphoned, could potentially recover some of their losses.

who needs to trust goons? I don't trust them farther than i can throw an elephant, but I do trust the brain God gave me (since I actually use it unlike most of humanity) and the almost 2 decades of studying human behavior and almost as long studying economics. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how difficult the logistics of attacking any of the large well defended null sec alliance's pos with these siphons is vs attacking any of the small not nearly as well defended low sec entities with them.

Also by mentioning the hulkageddon you are literally making their point for them because the permageddon was the final catalyst to making ccp actually rebalance the exhumers so they were worth using again due to how easy they were to kill by suicide gankers. I'll give you 1 guess which side the goons were on during the permageddon.

Yep I can see how 1 guy checking 5 towers 23/7 will definitely be more efficient than 10,000 guys checking 500 towers 23/7.

The big alliances are definitely getting the worst of this!

Hmmm, somewhat vague request here. Syphon's have a maximum operational range of 50K so putting 1 outside of this range will render it useless for anything more than target practice.

May I ask what the point of placing non operational syphon's might achieve.

You could place them as bait but then why not just place them within operating range and at least use it for syphoning while waiting for the rare moment you manage to catch an unsuspecting cloaky hauler stealing from it (well maybe not unsuspecting, if your in system while baiting your showing in local)

** I believe your question to be no more than an attempt at trolling (badly), if not I hope I was able to answer to your satisfaction.